May 3 , Guangdong Broadcasting Network News ( Reporter reporter Xu Han Zhou Yu Star reported Chaozhou ) Chaozhou City , Guangdong Tea Industry Association and the beginning of the grand Holdings Limited Companies and farmers jointly organized by the city's various tea-growing areas , the introduction of multi-party funding over a thousand million 30 sets of intelligent automatic tea color sorter , picking spring season recently put into use , greatly improving the efficiency of tea , reducing processing costs and labor election tea contamination for farmers to bring more economic benefits. It is reported to June next year , covering the city's tea growing area in use intelligent automatic tea color sorter will reach 130 units.

It is understood that the city's existing tea industry employing more than 60 people, including 50 million farmers , nonfarm 100,000 people ; tea plantation area of ​​138,000 hectares , more than the annual output of 10,000 tons , the output value of nearly 700 million yuan , through deep processing after the trade value of over 1 billion yuan . However, due to many reasons , the city's tea production late selection process more artificial choose tea , consumes a lot of labor , increased production costs , but also inevitably a process of pollution , it is difficult to achieve environmentally friendly production and ensure food hygiene and safety . For the current labor shortage, uneven product quality , the actual tea , tea Concord City grand group led organization , the introduction of these intelligent automatic tea color sorter , using the latest high-speed processors , digital image correction and two color options , etc. technology to greatly improve the accuracy of color selection , selection of tea to achieve the transition from manual to automated processes .

Currently , 30 intelligent automatic tea color sorter has been put into the city's tea -producing areas , including ChaoAn Phoenix , Phoenix Chi , blacksmith shop and Ping River RAOPING , built Rao , Shangrao, Dongshan and other mountain towns , very earth to improve the productivity of tea . According to reports , each tea color sorter can be selected tea 200 pounds per hour , 8 hours daily basis, optional 1600 pounds of tea a day ; selected by tea costs 1 yuan per kilogram meter, closing processing fee for each machine 1600 million. The use of artificial means currently selected tea catty fee required $ 4, comparison and selection of tea confidential pay 3 yuan ; artificial choose tea work 8 hours per day , calculated by journeyman capita choose no more than 16 pounds of tea a day , that each Select the amount of tea tea machine is manually choose tea selected 100 times ! Economic performance improved . During the interview, President of the City of Tea Industry Association Jone Chan is also dedicated to the city's farmers just such an account : color sorter can be reduced by 1.44 million workdays each year than the artificial choose tea , tea election costs savings of 3 yuan per kilogram , according to the city's annual output of 2760 kilograms of tea if calculated annually for the city 's farmers ' income can 82,800,000 yuan . The color sorter can reduce manual election than 2 pounds per hundred pounds of tea broken tea , tea dust, tea by 50 yuan per kilogram , for every hundred pounds of tea can increase 100 yuan , while the per acre per year may receive 200 pounds of tea , then per acre per year would increase 200 yuan , the city's 13.8 million acres to 27.6 million yuan will be able to increase . The two together , using color sorter will be available for the city's farmers ' income up to 1.1 billion dollars a year !